Word: mental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Evert thinks it a great joke that she was not voted "Most Athletic" of her high school graduating class. In truth, her game relied more on mental agility than physical force. She paced the base line and outwaited opponents, rather than take high-risk shots or rush the net seeking quick winners. She was ordinary in strength of serve and speed of hand and foot. But she was extraordinary in the precision and timing of her passing shots, her high, looping moon balls, her lobs that landed as if by radar in unreachable corners of the court. Above...
Everyone should know by now that drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause serious physical and mental problems in the unborn child. Most doctors have told their patients, television announcements have dramatized the dangers, and warning signs have gone up in restaurants and bars. But too many mothers-to-be are not getting the message. More than 50,000 babies are born in the U.S. each year with alcohol-related defects. In about one-fourth of these cases, the damage -- ranging from facial deformities to heart abnormalities -- is severe enough to be classified as fetal alcohol syndrome...
Many people still do not realize how common FAS is and how devastating it can be. According to some researchers, FAS is responsible for an estimated 20% of all U.S. cases of mental retardation. That makes FAS the No. 1 threat to children's mental health, greater than either Down syndrome or spina bifida...
Each random death--John Belushi's, Andy Warhol's, Rock Hudson's--is tied to the generation's mental state and imbued with cultural and sociological significance. Belushi's taught the generation of the danger of drugs, Hudson's of the need to come together to fight AIDS. Previously, the deaths of '60s heros (the Kennedys and Martin Luther King) made the generation cynical...
...decision left many Swedes more dissatisfied than ever with the bungled investigation of the February 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme. Last week a panel of judges found Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson, 42, a former mental patient with a long criminal record, guilty of the slaying and sentenced him to life in prison. The court split 6 to 2, with six lay judges convinced that Pettersson gunned down Palme. But the two professional judges on the panel voted for acquittal...